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TOY TRUMPET.

No. 249,347. Patented Nov. 8,1881;

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UN TED STATES.

PATENT ()FFIcE.

NOAH D. HAUVER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

TOY TRUM PET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 249,347, dated November 8, 1881;

Application filed May 11, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, NOAH D. HAUVER, of

the city, county, and State of New York, have.

invented new and useful Improvements in Toy Trumpets or Whistles, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has for its object the production of a toy trumpet or whistle, chiefly for childrens uses; and the invention consists in making an elastic mouth-piece, as of indierubber, in an oval or labial form at one end and of circular form at the other, and attaching it in any convenient manner to a tube of any desired length and form, and either of wood, tin, paper, or any other suitable substance, as will hereinafter appear.

In the drawings, Figure 1 represents a trumpet complete and as made of metal. Figs. 2, 3, and 4 represent views of the mouth-piece, and as attached to a short wooden tube. Fig. 5 represents the mouth-piece as attached to a trumpet or tube of paper.

A represents the elastic mouthpiece, preferably made of indie-rubber, and it may be made of a piece of tubing, provided the end of the trumpet, as at B, upon which it is fastened, is properly flattened to give aflattened or oval shape to the tip end of the mouth-piece, as at 0, Fig. 3, where the end of the tube is made to representtwo lips slightly opened, and which vibrate to and from each other when they are inserted in the mouth and a blast is blown through them, and so by their rapid vibrations produce sound-waves in the air. This monthpiece may also be molded in the form shown, and then attached to a trumpet or flaring tube either of metal, as shown at B, Fig. 1, or of' wood, as shown at Figs. 2 and 5, by winding a cord around the lower end of the elastic tube, as at D, or it may be fastened by a slight band or cord of rubber or in other convenient manner.

The form of tube at Figs. 2, 3, and 4 will make a very sharp or shrill noise, and may be used as a pocket-whistle.

Th'e trumpet at Fig. 5 is made of paper in the form used for cornucopias for holding can dies, and in such a case the mouthpiece may be attached to a wooden form. as shown at Fig.

2, and then the small end of the paper tube may be wrapped around it, as shown at E, Fig. 5, and then fastened by an elastic band, as at F, or in any other convenient manner, and in such a case the said paper tube may be used for holding candies, as in the ordinary manner of such packages, and when they are used or emptied out the tube may be used as a toy trumpet.

A long trumpet made with such a mouthpiece may be used on board of vessels as afogborn, as the elastic lips are excellent substitutes for the reeds often used for such purposes.

The mouth-piece may be formed of two elastic pieces of rubber or leather and jioined at their edges by cement or a seam, and in this way serve to imitate the lips, as shown.

I therefore claim-' 1. A mouth-piece for a trumpet or horn formed of two elastic lips, as hereinbefore set forth.

2. The combination of a mouth-piece with two elastic lips, as described, and a trumpet or tube of any suitable form, as hereinbet'ore set forth.

3. The combination of a mouth-piece of elastic material with a paper tube that may serve 

